As a trumpet player, Dr. Flagg has given
concerto and other solo performances with orchestras, toured with
chamber music groups, and performed numerous recitals. He has given
master classes and recitals at Jackson State University and
Fayetteville State University, and presented lectures at the Curtis
Institute, Oberlin College, and Carnegie Hall.

Dr. Flagg's diverse experience includes concerto, recital, orchestral, and
chamber music performances in classical, jazz, and new music. His
jazz performances include the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, the Music
Outreach Jazz Ensemble, and the Aaron Flagg Quartet. He has toured with
the Tania Leon's Son Sonora Ensemble; recorded with Roberta Flack and
operatic soprano Barbara Conrad; and performed with the New York
Philharmonic, Manhattan Virtuosi, Lansing Symphony, Brooklyn
Philharmonic, Wynton Marsalis, Gladys Knight, and the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, among others.

He
has been a consultant with arts presenting organizations and
universities around the country, while also being a teaching artist for
15 years with organizations including the Lincoln Center Institute,
Carnegie Hall Education, New York Philharmonic Education, Memphis Arts
Council, Guggenheim Museum, and the New York City Opera. He was named a
national spokesman for the Music Educators National Conference in
Virginia in 1999 and received the Rising Star Award for Westchester's
"Forty under Forty" in 2008.